Catherine buys a bag of cookies that contains 7 chocolate chip cookies, 4 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 5 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Catherine randomly selects a sugar cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another sugar cookie? Express your answer as a reduced fraction.

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Catherine buys a bag of cookies that contains 7 chocolate chip cookies, 4 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar
cookies and 5 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Catherine randomly selects a sugar
cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another sugar cookie? Express your answer as a reduced
fraction.
Transcribed Image Text:Catherine buys a bag of cookies that contains 7 chocolate chip cookies, 4 peanut butter cookies, 5 sugar cookies and 5 oatmeal raisin cookies. What is the probability that Catherine randomly selects a sugar cookie from the bag, eats it, then randomly selects another sugar cookie? Express your answer as a reduced fraction.
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